Note: 1646 - when men were still struggling against primitive concepts like 'Divine Right of Kings" as the basis of Law. Hence the need to...
...because humans have a relatively developed cortex brain, allowing for self-awareness and consideration of oncepts like 'fairness' and...
If you say so. Whereas an economy which provides for above-poverty participation by all is fair.
Tell that to a crocodile, wnen you stumble into an infested creek.. Anything can be "recognized in law", according to the choice of the lawyers.
Refuting the nonsense still taught in some mainstream economics schools re money creation: (link) Central bankers on their ability of banks to...
"Working really well".... (!) "Poverty easily conquered" ....(!) I rest my case. Not so; most Americans want gun control but Congress won't...
But rights based primarily on "freedom of the individual" empirically lead to conflict, entrenched poverty, destructive inequality (ie...
No; in fact the "Right" to life was spectacularly violated during the US civil war, with slaughter of over half a million. Similarly it's less...
Well, yes; but hopefully The Law, represented by "blind" Justice, is not conducive to exploitation. Whereas "life, liberty, and the pursuit of...
"Self evident truths" - a list of the nice things we all desire; but the list contains an obvious error ie " all men are created equal" -...
"self-evident" maybe, but delusional.... That's why the US has the highest prison population in the world, ranks among nations with the highest...
As I said, "natural individual Rights" don't exist, only desires exist (arising from the survival instinct, as well as other factors including...
Er....the state can't exist without law and a national supreme court; and btw, money exists as an enabler of sovereigny to be established over...
Locke was obviously referring to the "right" to own land and housing. The US constitution cleverly side-steps that issue. Of course, the US...
Ok....but the Law created order out of chaos, so long as law existed in the land. "All must submit to rule of law, for all to be free": Cicero....
Before David's conquest of Jerusalem from the Jebusites, the land was occupied by Canaanites, called Philistines by various authors in antiquity....
Yes, in the context of examining the classical-liberal-postulated (in the 18th century) 'natural inherent rights' - supposedly possessed by...
All explained in #147, and #142. China and Russia would remain members of the proposed reformed UNSC (without veto power held by individual...
All explained in #147.
Correct, based on the existence (via the evolved cortex brain) of the human conscience, capacity to reason, and sense of justice, which in the...
'Sovereignty' of the individual (or nation) is a human invention. Sovereignty of law, another human invention, is required to adjudicate (the...
Wrong again. Anarchy means absence of LAW - which is established by the state. Errors abound in that statement, you excel in being wrong. 1....
Can you rewrite that so that it makes sense? Anyway, being top of the food chain has nothing to do with (individual or national) 'sovereignty',...
Yes, individuals behave badly. Punishment is the sanction for bad behaviour. Nations aren't individuals, and won't need to be sanctioned if...
Hammurabi had his means....to enforce the implementation of justice... to avoid anarchy in the realm. If most agree the law is 'just', then the...
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